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Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Paul & Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life

Join Peter and Paul for their stories about the history of Peter, Paul, and Mary, along with an intimate musical performance at the bookstore.

Here is the first and only book that visually tells us the
intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, through their
own words and with iconic images that follow their passionate,
fifty-year journey to the center of America’s heart. The very best of
thousands of photographs, many rare and never before published, taken
over five decades by some of the world’s top photographers, follow them
from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the most
desired, beautiful, and charismatic performer and a new role model for
women. Follow the trio as they lead America to discover the passionate
soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality, social
justice, and freedom in this memorable journey, from the historic 1963
March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., to the trio’s
appearance before a half million people in 1969 to end the Vietnam War,
to their singing at the Hollywood Bowl for Survival Sunday in 1978,
helping to launch the anti-nuke movement, the world’s first
international environmental movement.

Through these images, you can
feel and almost hear the trio’s songs calling for a more caring, better
world as you see them performing with a courage and conviction that
became for so many the embodiment and sound track of their generation’s
awakening to conscience, to activism, and to a new dream for all of
humankind. Peter, Paul, and Mary’s songs of defiant hope and a certain
unmasked innocence are still a powerful part of our American
consciousness, and this book reenacts the history of how the trio marked
our lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we yearn to
recapture and recreate in our own time—for ourselves, our children, and
the generations to come.

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